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The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the loose relationship between own earnings and household...
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long-term care policy in Germany. The report is part of the first stage of the European project ANCIEN (Assessing Needs of …
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participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables …. Since the majority of women in Germany do not go back to work within a year after childbirth, we also investigate their …
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product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …
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In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...
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We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …
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This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
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Germany and including all certified diagnoses by practitioners. This enables us to gain a detailed understanding of the multi …
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-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light …
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We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … UK. The relationship in Germany is about as strong in the US and stronger than in the UK. However, in contrast to US …
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